Gradle cannot resolve Spring Boot HATEOAS dependency

Question

I created my skeleton project from http://start.spring.io . But when I build the application, Gradle cannot resolve the HATEOAS dependency. Here is the error I get:

Error:java: Illegal char <:> at index 78: C:\Users\TempUser\Downloads\hateoas\Could not resolve org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-hateoas:2.0.4.RELEASE.

This is my build.gradle file:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '2.0.4.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}


dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-hateoas:2.0.4.RELEASE')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
}

Answer 1

This declaration

compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-hateoas:2.0.4.RELEASE')

cause error. Change to

compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-hateoas')

This is what under the hood